Have an early look at the Loop's new Hyatt Centric

Chicago is home to Hyatt's first Hyatt Centric hotel, a new boutique concept for the chain.

The company plans to open 15 by the end of the year, in South Beach, Paris, New York and other “high-energy major-tier cities,” a spokesman said.

Hyatt Centric the Loop Chicago is in a renovated 1927 office building at Monroe and Clark streets. It has 257 rooms. Take a look around the hotel, whose lobbies, common areas and guest rooms were designed by Chicago's Gary Lee Partners, a week before the official opening. Cochon Volant, a French brasserie designed by Chicago's Studio K, opened this week. Its chefs are acclaimed Roland Liccioni (Les Nomades) and Matt Ayala (Gilt Bar, Schwa, Moto).

Bathrooms in the new Hyatt Centric the Loop Chicago have barn-door closures.

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The living area of a suite, one of 12 in the hotel. Each includes a foyer, bedroom, living room and soaking tub in the bath.

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The hotel's designers saved and restored this original door frame, built in 1927 when the building was constructed. It led to second-floor offices. AC Allyn & Co., a brokerage firm, occupied most of the building until the mid-1980s.

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Chicago artist Francine Turk painted two large artworks for the lobby.

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The bedroom of the fourth-floor presidential suite, with its original millwork

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The dining and living areas of the presidential suite

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A lounge on the third floor, where a continental breakfast and evening beer and wine are served.